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 Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:45 pm
"Ah, that's what I thought. You'd be surprised," Rabid smiled to Kyo, "and there's nothing to be sorry about. It's just...yeah..."
The posession of your child wasn't a very happy subject.
Ike had moved from his violin playing and was currently laying on the planks of the bridge, humming rather loudly and writing notes on a half-empty page of sheet music.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:54 pm
"Really...?" Kyo smiled lightly, but still he felt down, " Your really luck you know that, you don't have to be alone all the time." Kyo's smile lifted higher as he remembered things from a far distant memory.
"Maybe some day..?" Kyo added Glancing up to Rabid, still smiling.
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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:00 pm
"Sometimes one just...needs privacy. I don't get much of that. I'd like to," Rabid began.
"Yeah, like when she has her boyfriend over."
Rabid blushed slightly and shot Ike a death glare.
Ike laughed.
"I mean...I used to live alone. Quite alone. It takes a bit of adjusting."
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:51 pm
"Maybe some privacy is good... I just wish I didn't have a lot of it," Kyo chuckled then sighed.
"Any way's, is there anything around here to do?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:57 pm
"Well, yes," Rabid nodded and looked about them again, "Hm...not really. Not unless you have a little one..."
She laughed slightly.
"I used to visit the shop and HQ all the time before Ike was born. Feel free to use me as a pass if you ever want to visit the innards."
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:25 am
"Thanks..." Kyo smiled then laughed nervously...
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:35 am
Rabid noticed that the man seemed uncomfortable. She gave a toothy grin and stood.
"Well, I guess we should be going," she waved, "It was nice to meet you. Drop in some time, alright?"
"Bye, Mister Kyo!" Ike smiled and scampered off after his mum, violin and sheet music in hand.
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:27 am
Part 16
Crow sat out on the lawn under the shade of an oak tree, drinking tea and reading magazine after magazine. The music playing in the headphones around her neck mixed with randoms bursts of birdsong from the tree, making comfortable white noise to relax with. She took a long sip of tea from her thermos and ditched her seventh magazine as she reached for an eighth - it was clear she was a bit bored, and could've done with a bit of company.
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:33 am
Rabid had been scampering about like a mad woman for the last few hours. Grocery shopping had become something of a deranged method of torture. When it had been just her and Ike, things were fine. Now she had 2 finiky little girls and 2 eel-men who refused to eat anything that didn't automatically remind them of testosterone.
And all she could make was pancakes, damnit.
She missed the days way-back-when when she hadn't even had Ike. It was just her, her stacks of books, and Liam...or, alternately, her and--
"Crow!"
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:37 am
Crow looked up and grinned, waving Rabid over.
"Heya!" She said, scooting over to make room and pushing her stack of magazines aside. Taking another quick sip of tea, she turned off her music and struggled to disentangle herself from the headphone's cord. It was an epic two minute struggle, and by the end of it the headphones were the clear winner. Laughing at herself, she patted the grass next to her and motioned for Rabid to sit.
"How's it going?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:41 am
Rabid snerked and attempted to smooth her hair back, pushing a handful of the too-tame brown hair behind her ear. She didn't want to look like some kind of hobo, even if it was just Crow. She sat down in the spot beside her best friend and grinned.
"As good as it can with all the hormones in my damned family," she stopped for a moment, realizing what she'd just said, and snickered, "How is it going with you?"
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:48 am
Crow laughed and waved a hand airily around the grounds, her magazine pile, and the thermos of tea.
"Oh, same old, same old. Just playing hooky from work and readin', she said. "Care for a magazine? I got Science Today, Fangoria, and YM," she added, waving a phone-book thick magazine around and sending no less than thirteen card inserts flying out.
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:53 am
"Eurgh. Jeezum, no," Rabid shook her head and laughed, rolling over onto her back, "Magazines...the dredges of literature. Friggin' Earthling magazines. Pssh." She peered toward the pile anyway, but decided to stay with her original answer.
"How is work going?" she asked a bit sadly, spotting the Science Today. Not only was her pay not legal tender in Gaia, nobody knew anything of Mei-Vaar or trusted her enough to exchange the Heldae for gold.
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:02 am
Tossing the magazine back onto the pile, Crow sniffed in mock hurt.
"Aw, they're not that bad. I cut out pictures from YM for voodoo dolls." she said cheerfully. Not that any of them worked. Yet. Leaning against the tree and tugging at the headphone cord wrapped stubbornly around her neck, she shrugged.
"Eh, it's alright. Y'know, work is work. Mess with the order of the universe, burn stuff, create ungodly horrors that speak fluent Spanish." She said mildly, thinking about her dozens upon dozens of half-finished projects. "Y'know, now that I think of it, I'm not sure why we even do half of the stuff we do." She laughed. "Excellent use of government funding, I suppose."
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:07 am
"Aww, Crow," she gave Crow's leg a pat and laughed, "Voodoo is a religion, dear. One of the oldest religions on Earth. Hoodoo...now that's black magic. Jean-Gabriel could teach you how to make functioning hoodoo doll, I'm sure." She then sat up and grabbed Crow's headphones in one hand. She snatched up a section of the cord with the other and tried to pull it away a bit.
"Let's see if we can't fix this..." she murmured and bit her tongue, trying to aid in in the untangling.
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